(Georgia Renaissance Festival) Hungarian Playhouse History Class

This Saturday we will be meeting at The Georgia Renaissance Festival to enjoy some family fun together. Everyone is invited to join in on the event. Please email Istvan Mihok by clicking on the envelope next to his name for more details.

Tickets can be purchased any day of the festival at our front gate box office.
Festival Dates: April 18 thru June 7, 2009
Saturdays and Sundays plus Memorial Day
Hours: 10:30am - 6:00pm

GATE PRICES

Adult Tickets: $19.95
Senior Tickets (60+): $17.95
Child Tickets (6-12): $8.95
children 5 and under are free

Thanks!

Anne

Just for fun from the Georgia Renaissance Festival's Website:

Here are a few origins of phrases to tickle your fancy!

CHEW THE FAT
In olden times, a host would offer his guests a piece of bacon, which was stored above the fireplace in the parlor, so they could chew the fat during their visit.

GIVING SOMEONE THE COLD SHOULDER
When a guests would over stay their welcome as house guests, the hosts would (instead of feeding them good, warm meals) give their too-long staying guests the worst part of the animal, not warmed, but the COLD SHOULDER.

UPPER CRUST
Visitors to the Anne Hathaway’s cottage (near Stratford upon Avon) are given this explanation while looking at the bread oven beside the fireplace in the kitchen: “The bread was put, as a raw lump of dough, straight into the bread oven. No bread tin, it just sits on the floor of the oven. The oven is heated by the fire and is very hot at the bottom. When the bread is done baking and taken out to cool,
the base of the loaf is overcooked black and also dirty. The top of the loaf is done just right, and still clean. The bottom of the loaf is for the servants to eat, while the upper crust is for the master of the house.

REASON FOR CANOPY BEDS
Most English homes of old had “thatched” roofs. Canopies were placed over the beds to keep bugs, mice, dirt, rain, etc. from disturbing your sleep! (An example of a thatched roof can be found at the Georgia Renaissance Festival)

RAINING CATS AND DOGS
In medieval times, the houses were low with low hanging thatched roofs and the dogs and cats used to climb up there, one after the other. In heavy downpours, the said animals would tumble from their perches, past the windows and fall into the ditches compelling the ‘tankarded’ or ‘bombed’ residents to exclaim, “Aaargh, it’s raining cats and dogs.”

LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG
The phrase is a reference to an old scam in which a cat would be surreptitiously substituted for a suckling pig that had just been purchased at market during the Renaissance. The cat would be placed in the bag in the hopes that the customer would not look into it until they were some distance away.